Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Re: Re: Re: LAMS 2.0 and Moodle Integration Beta Release

You also commented on "the concepts
of sequences (which in my ears refer more to computer science than pedagogy), designs, lessons and groups and how they are related to each other".

I agree that sequences does have pretty computer science feel to it, which is probably why all the stuff you see on the wiki tends to refer to sequences - the wiki was written by computer science / engineering people.

I've just gone back an updated the descriptions of some of the terms on:
http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Overview
http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Glossary+of+Terms

We changed the meaning of the word "Group" part way through the LAMS 2.0 development and I hadn't updated the wiki. Hopefully the explanations are now a bit better.

There is also a teacher's guide.

But in short for the purposes of LAMS:

Learning Design = Design = Learning Sequence = Sequence
A learning design is a sequence of activities.

Probably not entirely correct pedagogically but I use the terms interchangeably.

Users in LAMS are assigned to permanent Groups. Groups can have sub-groups. These groups related to "real world" groupings such as a course, tutorial class, etc. In the past we referred to these groups as Organisations.

A lesson is a learning design / sequence that run with a class.

When you are running within just LAMS, the teacher selects a learning design/sequence then selects users from a Group. The selected users form a new lesson class.

When you are running with Moodle, you create a Moodle LAMS activity by selecting the learning design and doing start (or scheduling it to start later) and the lesson class is created automatically.

While the lesson is running, there can also be temporary groups created that apply only within the lesson. These break the lesson class into smaller groups as directed by grouping activities within the learning design.

Does this help?

Fiona

Posted by Fiona Malikoff